Conversations with Ella
(this picture cracks me up...)

I haven’t really been talking regularly with Ella (not like before anyway, when we’d meet at school, gab, go home and call each other to gab some more) but we always try to keep in touch. I like talking to her because she lends a fresh perspective to my sometimes drab view of life.

We’re both paranoid but I am by far leaps and bounds worse of than she is. She trusts people and I don’t. The general consensus for me is that all people are evil until they prove me otherwise. It so cuts down on disappointments really. The funny thing is that people really don’t perceive me that way. I guess I give off an optimistic vibe…and I suppose I am an optimist too and an idealist. Well, anyway who said that you had to be one type of personality anyway? That’s what schizophrenia is there for.

I talked to Ella yesterday, she was feeling down about that student of hers (whose name is not even mentioning, that hypocritical two faced brat). If you have a complaint about a person, really you should tell the person to their face instead of just going over their heads and informing their superior…long story short Ella got a dressing down from her boss and decided to quit. She’s been thinking about it for a while now but that incident has pushed her to the breaking point and she’s done.

Two week’s notice is the norm, but she doesn’t want to go back. She asked my opinion and I told her that the right thing to do was to complete the two weeks notice thing but since I myself bailed on my last job without so much as an adieu, I don’t want to be a hypocrite and make her go back.

BURN OUT is the word and the feeling is just icky…

Starting Monday, she’ll have this UP thing going. Me and my 2-Lit friends are going to go visit her on 16 or 17 to see her booth at the UP fair. I’m really excited about it, it seems like fun and a good distraction from all the stuff going on. Plus, we all miss Ella!